Reclining-perambulator.



Nor628,983. Patented luly I8, |899. C. B. JONES.

RECLINING PERAMBULATOB.

(Application led Feb. 20, 1899.)

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BECLINING PERAMBULATUR.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters PatentNo. 628,983, dated'July 18, 1899.l

Application tiled February 20. 1899.I erial No 706,234. lllo modela To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES B.\JoNEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at New Haven, `county of New Haven, Slate of Con# necticut, have invented a new and useful Reclining-Perambulator, (Case'B,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of adjustable chair-supports, preferably ol' the wheeled variety, for the accommodation particularly of children Aand the said inven tion hasfor its object to provide means for elevating the foot or leg rest simultaneously with the rearward adjustment of the bacl rest and to means for automatically looking the parts in the latter position.

A further object of this invention is the production of a device of this character in which the foot or leg rest when projected to horizontal position shall be absolutely immovable from that position by any accidental means, thus preventing any possibility of a child falling from the vehicle if it should rest upon said forwardlyprojecting portion; and a further object of the invention is to provide a construction whereby the application of a very slight upward pressure upon the upper end of the back-rest will serve to unlock the foot or leg rest from its horizontal position and permit it to drop to a vertical or nearly vertical position.

To these ends the invention consists in the construction and combination of parts, substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

f In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a side elevation of one embodiment of my invention, the parts being in their positions for the occupant of the vehicle to sit upright therein. It is to be understood that the invention shown as applied in this figure could be equally Well applied to supports of Fig. l, but representing anotherembodiment of the invention. Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but representing the embodiment of drawings.

The fixed seat of the support, whetheritis a wheeled or a stationarychair, is indicated at l, and attached to the side thereof is the `metal strap 2, which mayform a part of the frame of the vehicle or chair and strengthen it. Pivoted to the front end 'of the strap 2 is a bar 3, which forms one side of the frame of the leg and foot rest. Pivoted to the strap 2 near its rear end is a lever 4, the upper part of which forms one side of the back-rest.

So far the description applies to the construction shown in both embodiments of the invention.

lteferringr now to Figs. l and 2, 5 and 6 indicate the two members of a jointed strut, one end of which is pivotally connected at 7 to the bar 3 and the other end is pivotally connected at 8 to a vertical bar 9, to Which the front wheels are connected when a perambu lator is ,being constructed or which vertical bar may be a leg of a stationary recliningchair. To the pivot l0, which connects the two members of the strut, is pivoted one end of a link 11, the other end of which is pivoted at l2 to the lower end of the lever 4. Vhen the lever 4 or the back-rest is moved from the position shown in Fig. l to the position shown in Fig. 2, the linkv 1l serves to straighten out the strut until the members 5 and 6 thereof are brought into alinement. To prevent the members 5 and 6 from passing beyond this point or doubling up in the Wrong direction, one-of the overlapping portions which form said strut is provided with a lug 13, as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, to engage the end of the other member of the strut when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2. When the parts are in the position shown in Eig. 2, the leg-rest is horizontally supported so firmly bymeans of the straightened-out jointed strut that no weight short of 'a breaking one can move said rest downwardly until a slight pres- `sureupward of the yupper ends of the levers IOO 4t operates through the link 1l to draw the jointed ends of the members 5 and 6 of the strut upward and rearwardly to a slight dcgree, so that the bar 3 and leg-rest can swing downward-ly to the-position shown in Fig. l. It is to be understood that all of these parts are preferably duplicated at the other side of the chair or vehicle.

Referring to Figs. 5 and 6, it will be seen 'that the construction is substantially identical With that shown in Figs. l to 4, inclusive, except that in said Figs. 5 and 6 the strut is composed of'longer members and the lower pivot 8 of the strut is secured to the lower end of the vertical bar 9, and the link 1l instead of being connected with the strut at the .pivot of the joint thereof is pivotally connected at 17 to the member 6 of the strut substantially midway of the ends of that meinber. The bar 3, strut members 5 and 6, link 1l, and lever 4 are al1 adapted to be formed by severing the proper lengths from flat stock of the requisite width and thickness. Hence I am enabled to manufacture the parts of the operating mechanism of the leg and back rests ata minimum expense. A stop 14 may be secured to the strap 2 in a position to be engaged by the edge of the lever 4t when said lever is in the position shown in Fig. 2, said stop preventing the strain due to the weight of the occupants back on said lever 4 from being` com inunicated to the stop-lug 13 of the jointed strut.

I claimln a device of the character specified, the

combination with the seat-frame, of. the bar 3, the jointed strut pivoted to the bar' and to a fixed support below the seat-frame and comprising two members 5 and 6 'pivotally connected together and adapted to be brought into aliinement with each other' or to fold to one side from alineinent, one of said members having a lug 13 adapted to engage an edge portion of the other member to lock the said two members in their position of alinemeut, the lever 4 pivoted to the seat-frame, and a link 1l connecting the lower end of said lever with the strut.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES B. JONES. Vitnesses:

THOMAS T. W ELLE, F. M. RUWET, 

